Looks like Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers will be giving a lecture at MSU on Monday night.
Should be pretty interesting. I wonder how many anti-global warming crackpots denialist crackpots the lecture will attract?

Perhaps I’m just ignorant on the subject, but when did James Cameron become a documentary filmmaker? Shouldn’t he be making interminable crap that for unexplainable reasons becomes ridiculously popular?
Then again, maybe this The Jesus Family Tomb documentary will fit the bill.
Time runs down the claims and the reasons for skepticism. I must say, it seems […]

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Them: Adventures with Extremists
by Jon Ronson
This is another book about the weird people in our world, written before The Men Who Stare at Goats. Ronson chronicles his travels with extremists of various stripes: Islamic fundamentalists, David Icke, Alex Jones, the KKK, the Weavers, etc. A main theme throughout the book is Ronson’s search for the […]

You know, this may actually be what PETA wants:
I’m sorry, but I just don’t understand PETA, they use guilt far too often for my liking. Yeah - I know that my chicken came from a factory farm. That’s really tough shit because a) its already dead and b) it’s an animal. What would PETA like […]

Apparently, non-believers are 3 times more likely to die during open heart surgeries than believers. I’m sure the supporting evidence for that little factoid has been published in a reputable peer-reviewed journal. Right?
Right?
It seems strange that that claim is in the first paragraph of the story, but it’s mentioned nowhere else. It’s a pretty big […]

Ok then.

This post of Mark’s got me thinking. I’m not trying to pick on him specifically, however.
During the run up to the Iraq war I was definitely in the far-left opposition camp. I can’t say I ever believed Iraq had WMDs. I turned out to be right, but I held the position with much more certainty […]

I’m trying not to listen to the two leaked Porcupine Tree songs on my hard drive. It’s working so far.
Obviously, I’m not holding out once the whole thing leaks.
If you think this is strange, check out PT’s lead on my top artists list and go listen to them here.

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The Men who Stare at Goats
by Jon Ronson
This is a bizarre book. Well, maybe the book isn’t so bizarre, but the subject matter certainly is. Ronson chronicles his search for those who can, allegedly, kill goats just by staring at them. In the military. Seriously. The goat story always lingers, but his search takes him […]

Almost everything in my Actions submenu in Konqueror has disappeared. They’re still in the servicemenus folder, but now only two show up, for no apparent reason.
UPDATE: Nevermind. That was happening because I was inadvertently starting Konqueror with the wrong profile.